A Messapian Pottery Trozella, circa 350-300 B.C.

with spreading foot, pear-shaped body, and high rotelled handles, the shoulder painted in reddish brown over a smooth buff slip with floral motives beneath wave and tear drop bands, the same motif highly worn on the reverse.

North American educational institution (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 21st, 1977, no. 134, illus.)

misfired in places, body on reverse has large area of abrasion obliterating central design, wear and losses to glaze on handles and one side of rim, part of foot encrusted
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The accession number "1913.240" is painted on the underside.

Cf. G. Schneider-Herrmann, Red-figured Lucanian and Apulian Nestorides and their Ancestors, Amsterdam, 1980, fig. 26.